From plastics to clothes to DNA, polymers are everywhere. Polymers are highly versatile materials that are made of long chains of repeating units called monomers. Polymers containing metal complexes … [+3169 chars]
Integration of environmental signals on the expression of the photoprotection-related genes. (A) Schematic summary of changing light quality and quantity throughout the day. Blue light reaches deeper… [+6477 chars]
Observations of local supernovae over the past couple of decades have detected the presence of dust in supernova ejecta. A new observation shows that the cosmic dust in the early Universe was formed … [+2956 chars]
The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year. A mission profile, launch schedule e… [+4487 chars]
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance snapped this photo of a balancing boulder and snake-head rock on June 12, 2022, using its Mastcam-Z camera system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) NASA's Persever… [+2588 chars]
The face of a petite and dark-haired woman has been reconstructed by the researchers. What is special about this woman is that she was one of the richest residents of Bronze-Age Bohemia as she was bu… [+1539 chars]
We watch our moon every day, however imagine a scenario in which we get to see one of Jupiter’s moons, ‘Europa’, later this week. Because of a peculiarity of divine game plans, skywatchers in Africa … [+1403 chars]
Its hard to find a place on Earth untouched by palladium. The silvery-white metal is a key part of catalytic converters in the worlds 1.4 billion cars, which spew specks of palladium into the atmosph… [+16958 chars]
<li>Claussnitzer, M. et al. A brief history of human disease genetics. Naturehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1879-7 (2020). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar </li><li>DiResta… [+14068 chars]
The Astra contract, worth an insane R127-million, lost two of its satellites recently due to an engine malfunction. WATCH: Gauteng bakkie drives on highway with one rim scraping the ground The t… [+494 chars]
The properties of cephalopod skin have been harnessed to create an artificial skin with potential applications for neurorobotics, skin prosthetics, and artificial organs. The new skin, developed in… [+2653 chars]
E. coli cells used in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) on an agar plate.Credit: Jeffrey Barrick On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with sugary growt… [+8431 chars]
